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«Only with such site - specific data on bird movements will we be able to assess the potential risks to marine and migratory birds from offshore wind farms, providing essential data for developing effective conservation strategies for birds and offshore wind energy development in the Northeast.»

We formally petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect migratory birds from the negative impacts of wind energy, asking for regulations to safeguard wildlife and reward responsible wind energy development.

Known as the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska, the expanse of public land is globally regarded as an ecological treasure, providing a nursery for migratory birds from every continent and free range for iconic species such as grizzly bears, musk oxen.

The plan is a huge step for conservation of the Western Arctic, an area increasingly stressed by climate change, and provides critical protections for key lands in the Reserve and the wildlife dependent on it, including migratory birds from around the world, caribou, bears, wolves, beluga whales, and walrus.

The Malheur refuge was created in 1908 to protect vast flocks of migratory birds from hordes of «plumers» supplying the hat trade with feathers.

He runs various programs related to the conservation of primarily migratory birds from the U.S. and Canada that go to Latin America where they winter and breed.

Not exact matches

The exhibit, done in collaboration with the University of Washington, the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, Seattle University, Seattle Audubon, and the Specialty Coffee Industry, includes videos, photographs, and coffee tastings from local roasters.

A summary of the eco / bird - friendly, sustainable coffee movement and its associated certifications is within the paper «In pursuit of sustainability: lessons from the coffee sector» by Robert Rice of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Cenbird - friendly, sustainable coffee movement and its associated certifications is within the paper «In pursuit of sustainability: lessons from the coffee sector» by Robert Rice of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird CenBird Center.

Robert Rice, of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, surveyed 338 owners of coffee farmers in Peru and Guatemala to determine what portion of total income from shaded coffee farms was attributable to non-coffee products derived from the farm.

The Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center has announced the first Bird - Friendly certified coffee from the Caribbean, from Spirit Mountain Coffee in the Dominican Republic.

Meanwhile, news from the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center.

One of C&C's favorite roasters, Caffe Pronto in Maryland, has just received Bird - Friendly certification from the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center.

Now I'd like to post the comments of Bob Rice from the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center (SMBC), the developer and guardian of Bird - Friendly certified coffee:

Research from the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Centre has demonstrated that the number of bird species found in shade coffee plantations is almost twice that found in sun grown coffee (Smithsonian 19Bird Centre has demonstrated that the number of bird species found in shade coffee plantations is almost twice that found in sun grown coffee (Smithsonian 19bird species found in shade coffee plantations is almost twice that found in sun grown coffee (Smithsonian 1994).

Originally hailing from Delaware, Jeff attended graduate school at UMass Amherst, where he investigated the winter habitat of the migratory Golden - winged Warbler as well as the role of alternative coffee farming in the conservation of forest bird species in Costa Rica.

Migratory birds, on the other hand, can traverse entire hemispheres and end up just a couple miles from where they bred last year, using their senses alone.

To expand the scientific knowledge base, a team of UC Santa Barbara scientists set out to estimate the vulnerability and extinction risk of migratory birds, mammals and fishes from different regions and ecosystems around the world.

Vulture's migratory movements meant they couldn't be sampled across seasons, but older vultures tended to have higher concentrations of lead, suggesting that older, more dominant individuals exclude younger birds from foraging on carcasses.

N9 seems to have come from a wild bird, probably around Korea somewhere, although there's evidence for rare N9s in other birds in Mongolia and Siberia, where these migratory wildfowl tend to congregate.

A recent study from researchers at the University of Montana, National Audubon Society, Oregon State University and East Cascades Audubon Society shows food sources for migratory birds decline with low water levels and high salt content in lakes.

«Even where land is severely degraded, simple and cheap restoration methods can restore incredible biodiversity, replenish watersheds, attract migratory birds and shield the land from being ravaged by extreme weather.

The decline of wetlands is nearing a critical threshold below which the losses could inflict severe and lasting harm on ecosystems — driving numerous migratory bird species to the brink of extinction and jeopardizing nearly 20 % of the world's fisheries, warns a new report from Chinese and U.S scientists.

Flu experts worry that migratory birds infected with a new strain of the H5N1 virus, like the bar - headed goose (left), might carry it far from their breeding ground at Lake Qinghai.

Once there, oil could hammer marsh dwellers, nesting shorebirds, migratory shorebirds on heroic migrations from South America traveling to as far north as the Arctic, and some fishing birds whose main populations thrive in the Gulf.

An international team of researchers have now found an important piece of the puzzle: migratory birds about to fly to South America from the Arctic harbor small plant parts in their feathers.

Using data on all the ultralight - trained birds» spring and fall migrations from 2002 to 2009, the researchers found that neither genetic relatedness nor gender had any effect on the whooping cranes» tendency to stay on the shortest migratory route.

The survey revealed that inland wetlands were more important to both resident and migratory birds than had been realized, and that wetland loss from damming and the diversion of river water for irrigation was at least in part responsible for the shorebird decline in Australia.

Researchers have long known that migratory birds receive information about magnetic fields from a part of their upper beak called the magnetite receptor, which contains iron - based magnetic crystals.

The earth's magnetic field performs important functions: it protects us, for example, from charged particles from space and enables migratory birds, bees, and other animals to navigate.

The finding of individuals at chick or near fledging stage (known from their bone surface texture) shows that Hakawai melvillei was breeding in New Zealand and was not migratory, unlike many birds of this group today.

«Probably, in the region we were sampling, the Antarctic peninsula, it's most likely that migratory birds are travel ling down from North and South America,» Hurt said.

So a team of researchers from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester started small, forgoing migratory birds and other large animals for the humble fruit fly.

The map is based on the northwards migratory patterns of birds (from the 4th February to the end of April) using environmental and meteorological data over the same 12 weeks — from Zhejiang, Shanghai, and Jiangsu, to Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang.

This question has long been a debated topic among scientists, but thanks to new research from Field Museum scientists, we may have an answer for one of the largest groups of migratory birds.

Why do migratory birds undertake these journeys, and how do they find their way from one location to the next?

Birds, whales and other migratory creatures are suffering from global warming that puts them in the wrong place at the wrong time, a U.N. official told 166 - nation climate talks on Monday.

«When the migratory birds breed, they have moved away from many diseases and therefore do not need an immune system that is equally varied.

Passenger pigeons were nomadic; to prevent the birds from acclimating to specific sites and becoming «migratory» the birds will be rotated randomly between multiple spring, summer, and winter sites.

The application of the pan-paramyxovirus RT - PCR assay was further evaluated using specimens from wild migratory birds.

Millions of birds die from collisions with brightly lit communication towers, and migratory flocks are confused by signals gone awry.

I haven't seen a statement anything more official looking from the National Zoo or the Migratory Bird Center.

(Late last year, co-author Peter Marra earned his Propaganda Badge via a Washington Post article, though the research findings he cited there have since been removed from the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center's website.)

«These animals were brought in alive and do not include those that died or were not found... [This] includes 36 [bird] species, many of which are songbirds or locally rare, sensitive, or migratory species; all are supposed to be protected by law from illegal take.»

The Migratory Bird Treaty Act, designed to protect birds from harm resulting from human activity, will no longer apply to oil spills or other catastrophic events that inadvertently harm wildlife, according to a new interpretation of the act from the U.S. Department of the Interior.

Among those missing from the conference were the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center's Peter Marra, an opponent of TNR whose work I've criticized.

Migratory birds could be subject to predation from State municipality, or land manager - authorized cat colonies and free - ranging feral or pet cats.

Nearly 10 later, Migratory Bird Mortality is still available from the USFWS website.

Learn about Aboriginal culture from traditional owners the Bininj / Mungguy people, take in thundering waterfalls and witness millions of migratory birds among the wetlands.

This celebration of migratory birds spans from South America to Canada, and enables thousands of people to learn about migrations and why these birds are so special.

In the Redwood Creek Watershed, we will be celebrating our own migratory birds with events from Muir Woods to Muir Beach.